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Victims missing
The three victims are last seen at approximately 6:30pm. -
police under investigation
Local Police under investigation by state police, places strain on relationship. Centered on drugs, suggested corruption. Drugs were missing and pawned off. Guns seized were missing Undercover narcotics investigator under investigation. One deputy said it had become common practice to help themselves to guns. -
Infromation
Investigative agency assisting releases information that was tried to be kept secret -
Found
The children's bodies are found at 1:30 .m in an area known locally as the Robin Hood Hills. They had been beaten and hog-tied and were nude with their shoelaces. Suspect cult activity with no evidence. Coroner not called for 2 hours. Bodies decayed highly during wait. -
Evidence at creek
one finger print in the mud
One partial finger print
Stunning lack of blood
No match made to fingerprints
Childrens clothes found stuffed in mud with sticks. -
Hutcheson
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Damien
Police interview 18-year-old Damien Echols about the crime.No rights were read, or were they told they were suspects,or lawyers present. -
Moores.
three days after the murders, Detective Ridgeo questioned the Moores. They had little to add to the mystery of the murders. But a friend of Dawn’s told Ridge that she had seen Stevie and Michael going into Robin Hood on the evening they disappeared -
Damain jason
Police interview Echols again along with his then-girlfriend Domini Teer and Jason Baldwin. -
Damien III
Police interview Damien Echols at the West Memphis Police Department -
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Arron hutcheson
Arron makes up stories. added to by his mother? -
Andrew Gipson Taylor
thirty-four-year-old mechanic who often stayed at the Byerses’ house.He reported that there were “hard feelings” between John Mark Byers and Todd Moore.John Mark had some pool parties,” one of the detectives wrote, “and when his friends would park on his [Moore’s] grass, he [Moore] would call the police-may 11 -
Ryan Clark (step-son of Bryers)
Ryan Clark, Melissa’s thirteen-year-old son. Ryan said he had arrived home from school at “exactly 3:38P.M .” on the afternoon Christopher disappeared.36Chris was not at home. John Mark Byers took Ryan to his 4P.M . appearance in court, left, and returned from the courthouse at around 6P.M. Couldn't find Chris went to look for him. Ryan searched for 30min in woods with friends. The searches neighborhood Ryan’s statement that he “came home at midnight and his dad made him go to bed.” The next da -
Blood
six days after the bodies were found, Gitchell’s detectives belatedly tested the site by the ditch for blood. They sprayed Luminol, a product that glows luminescent in the dark in places where it has interacted with blood. Results of the test were sketchy—and minimal. -
Play detective
Vicki hutcheson said a few days later some kids in her neighborhood knew about a cult. She said she will "play detective". Detective bray di dnot object. -
esbat (Vicki)
Vicki claims Damien drove her to an esbat in a red Ford escort, gathering of witches, she saw 10 young people painted black, Did not describe how it was lighted, there was no moon that night. No one in Damien’s family owns that car, Damian doesn’t drive he gets intensely car sick. -
John Bryers
John ryers He’d arrived home at 3:10P.M.left the house at 3:50P.M.He’d then driven to Memphis, picked up Melissa from work, dropped her off at the house, then headed back to downtown West Memphis, to pick up Ryan at court. On the way, he said, he’d spotted Christopher, belly-down on his skateboard, on the street.he then He drove the boy back home, made him hold on to the bar in the kitchen, and “gave him two or three licks.” with his belt.e -
John pt2
ft the house again to get Ryan.they get back home and start the search.He said he began searching in the woods by about 8:30P.M . . “Well, I had on a pair of shorts and a pair of flip-flops, so I run back to the house and changed clothes..., I didn’t have a flashlight, or anything with me, and I thought, ‘Byers’s report said that he’d driven across the river to midtown Memphis and back, at the height of rush hour, in just an hour. he ws not questioned on how this was possible. -
John 3
We just went back looking,” he said. “As a matter of fact, my son Ryan and I got in the car and we drove around there to Blue Beacon, and went into Blue Beacon Truck Wash. Ryan said he went to bed at midnight.Neither Ridge nor Sudbury mentioned Ryan’s statement to detectives that he’d been sent to bed at midnight
Stevie liv -
john best freind
Byers said that Christopher had liked to play with a “little boy named Aaron” but that Stevie Branch was his closest friend. He admitted, however, that he had not known where Stevie lived until the night that Christopher disappeared. Neither detective asked why Byers had not known where Christopher’s best friend lived. Nor did they ask him about what others had reported, namely, that Michael, across the street, had been Christopher’s closest friend. Byers did not even mention Michael. -
Melissa Byers.
Some of what she said also contradicted what her husband had told the police. While he’d reported that Christopher had never disappeared from home before, Melissa said that Christopher had disappeared a few times recently.41In 1990, when Christopher was only five, the Byerses had brought him to a pediatric neurologist in Memphis for evaluation of behavioral problems.The doctor noted in his report, “The mother is ‘at her wit’s end.’ -
medical reports
twenty days after the bodies were found, Gitchell still had not received the written autopsy reports -
Confession
Ater being interviewed by the police for hours, mentally challenged Jessie Misskelley implicates himself, Baldwin and Echols in the murder of the three children. Baldwin, Echols and Misskelley are arrested. Misskelley later recants his confession.